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In Reply to: RE: Your list of most influential/important speaker DESIGNERS? posted by Brian H P on May 15, 2015 at 11:54:59
The OP did not mention "audiophile" in his post. Like it or not Bose became a billlionaire with his speaker designs. I don't think there is any one else in the field of stereophonic reproduction that even comes close to that kind of success other than Avery Fisher.
No flames please.
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...but he did say "innovative" and "influential" - two things Bose was not.
Unless his table-top radios were the former - and only then, because he had no competition - very strange.
The 901 certainly was innovative even if it didn't work the way Amar Bose claimed.
Maybe not the best solution to the perceived problem (how to cast a really BIG soundstage), but an interesting approach to it. The Ohm Walsh series took another interesting (and better) approach, which has subsequently inspired German Physik, MBL, and others.
Amar erred in advising that the 901s be placed close to the rear wall, when, like all omni designs, they actually sound much better out in the middle of a large room, with plenty of space around them.
Bose is more than the 901, but you already know that ......
Yes actually their big money comes from military I'm told.
Bose was/is innovative ,designers like Albert Von Schweikert listed above is not, Not sure how anyone can say Bose is not an innovative company..
LOL, really ...
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It's difficult to argue with a bottom line like that, like his products or not.
But this was about speaker *designers* - not companies.What products (today) trace back to the Bose 901 ?
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None, nor do I like it or the concept(I don't even think it does what is claimed nor is it possible to do what is claimed in ant practical way) but it's still around over 4 decades later.
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